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Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman Jonah Preaching to the Ninevites (1866) by Gustave Doré, in La Grande Bible de Tours. Jonah is the central character in the Book of Jonah, in which God commands him to go to the city of Nineveh to prophesy against it "for their great wickedness is come up before me," [10] but Jonah instead attempts to flee from "the presence of the Lord" by going ...
Book of Jonah. The Book of Jonah is one of the twelve minor prophets of the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Hebrew Bible, and an individual book in the Christian Old Testament. The book tells of a Hebrew prophet named Jonah, son of Amittai, who is sent by God to prophesy the destruction of Nineveh, but attempts to escape his divine mission.
The work is loosely based on the biblical allegory of Jonah and the Whale, although Tavener admitted that "The 'fantasy' grew and perhaps at times nearly 'swallowed' the biblical text: so the swallowing of Jonah became almost 'literal' in the biblical sense."
The figure of Jonah also takes up more of the engraving than Stavraki's painting. In Stavraki's painting, a boat is traveling in the middle ground. In the background of the painting, the boat is clearly sinking and a large whale head protrudes from the water. In the foreground, the story ends with Jonah regurgitated from the whale's mouth.
Spanish. Jonah and the Pink Whale (Spanish: Jonás y la ballena rosada) is a 1995 Mexican-Bolivian co-production film directed by Juan Carlos Valdivia. The film is based on the 1987 novel by José Wolfango Montes Vannuci [2] The film focuses on the relationship of Jonas, a photographer and his romantic relationship with his sister-in-law.
Jonah Who Lived in the Whale. Jonah Who Lived in the Whale (Italian: Jona che visse nella balena), in the United States released as (Look to the Sky) is a 1993 Italian-French drama film directed by Roberto Faenza, based on the autobiographical novel by the writer Jona Oberski entitled Childhood (Dutch: Kinderjaren), focused on the drama of the ...
Jonah (Lorenzetto) Jonah. (Lorenzetto) The statue of Jonah and the whale is an Italian Renaissance sculpture in marble by Lorenzetto in the niche to the left of the altar in the Chigi Chapel of the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome. The sculptor followed the original designs of his mentor, Raphael, who was the architect of the chapel.
Inside the Whale. " Inside the Whale " is an essay in three parts written by George Orwell in 1940. It is primarily a review of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller with Orwell discoursing more widely over English literature in the 1920s and 1930s. The biblical story of Jonah and the whale is used as a metaphor for accepting experience without ...